Pierre Bensusan Merrily Kissed The Quaker & Cunla

[@mrjonesmusic5770]

I tried for years to cover this arrangement and eventually gave up! Pierre Bensusan's hands are truly gifted.

[@PaulAmirault]

Never gets old watching a Frenchman playing Celtic guitar melodies like he was born to!

[@TheAtticradio]

Totally awesome !! Love Planxty version too !!

[@JohnHillEU]

Frickin' right the boy can play! One of my favourite tunes

[@bluesexplosionrob]

Pierre has a thumb like a metronome. It's so mesmerising to watch. What an amazing performance.

[@OliverMax]

Resting the head on the guitar, thats a sign of a pure connection with music.

[@stephen3073]

The eleven people who gave this a thumbs-down must be living bleak and joyless lives. I mean, how can you listen and watch, and NOT want to jump up out of your seat and dance around the room?

[@davidclarke736]

They tried to learn it

[@pajamasflannel]

Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder. It's in his ear too.

[@tonyking1756]

Tuba people. They're jealous. Ignore them.

[@zodiacbluesbaby]

You can tell this is his own arrangement, he's so fluent and natural. His phrasing around 0:54 is quite rock 'n' roll!

[@ryanalexander8999]

This is the sort of beautiful music that makes your heart actually ache.

[@salal2007]

I think Pierre played this piece the first time I saw him in Vancouver, late 70s.... how lucky I've been!

[@og1ie]

I would like to share this with my friend. This is a very very fine rendition of a very fine tune. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[@stringbound]

@toepje12 If you want to learn this song: it's on the DVD "Ramble to Cashel", available at Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop. A tabbook with the song comes with the DVD.

[@MoritaDaichi]

I really love this guitar play. What a beautiful sound this is ! I covered this, but it's very difficult to bring on this sounds.

[@upstateguitar]

@stringbound Thanks - I bought it. Now I have to download the tab and devote the rest of my life to learning how to play this. I guess my family will have to fend for themselves. But at least I'll be able to play this song!

[@niktasor]

thats awesome... i love how he just stares into space, he knows his guitar by heart

[@torgo4ever]

Any other guitarists watching this and wishing upon a star to some day become so intimate with the fretboard that they could play like this without ever looking at their left hand ? XD

[@briandunstan3503]

torgo4ever intimate is right he's practically got his head inside it.

[@N1inSK]

That's what proper practice does for you; it trains your muscles so you know where your fingers are without needing to look. I know a musician who practices a minimum of 5 hours a day.

[@celestialrift]

@@N1inSK If you're a professional, this is standard. It takes remarkable endurance.

[@N1inSK]

@@celestialrift Indeed it is, and it does. Musicians are small-muscle athletes, and must keep exercising those muscles to maintain strength and flexibility. As it happens, I've just started physiotherapy for a broken left arm, and I'm have the devil's own time getting my hand to stretch the way it used to to reach the frets on my mountain dulcimer.

[@ferrisishere]

as an irishman thats been playing trad music for nearly 10 years i can honestly say that if pierre went to the all irelands for guitar he would clean up big style...awesome stuff never seen those tunes played so fluently on the guitar

[@Rory99M]

Hi there. Im irish too. Is there an guitar all ireland?

[@BTSamSquanch21]

should change the name to merrily kissed my soul, What a magical melody!!

[@Max1baL]

Wonderful guitar player! ¡Maravilloso guitarrista!

[@newname363]

i had tickets to see bensusan and john renbourn .. the concert was canceled due to lack of flights because of 9/11.. i had only just heard of pierre, it was renbourn i was wanting to see .. having seen this i realize the loss of not seeing BOTH guitarists

[@Odrizzle888]

I'm sure someone will have already said this but this is used in the intro for Mumford & Son's Roll Away Your Stone

[@Killerplanes]

I had a dream once where I was a guitar God. In the dream, I sat awestruck watching Pierre play.

[@Gwyhir]

Fantastic - makes the hair on my kneck stand up.

[@Gwyhir]

His left hand literally dances on the fretboard.

[@timpipe]

Check Richard Thompson playing "Banish misfortune"

[@aitoolsdaily]

Does this remind anyone of Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford and Sons?

[@andreastefanomele]

Yeah.... the Master!!!! I love U Pierre!

[@gamotley]

I think DCrow may mean Pierre's RIGHT little finger!, in which case I concurr.

[@fingling8]

@oscailandoras My comment didn't seem to make it--Cunla begins 1:30.

[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

This guy is fantastic!

[@Theflowoflove]

A lovely old chestnut, The chieftans & Planxty.

[@Xerxes4242]

This is unreal.

[@oscailandoras]

does the song change to CUNLA during the middle?

[@tarkineWild]

@toepje12 You'll find it on Pierre Bensusan Pres De Paris... from 1975

[@SxejokeR]

this song = me => happy =D

[@Christus933]

he is a genious :) very very talented artist

[@tinmarrj]

He's real musician... Some guitarist can play precisely and clean(like Ulli Bögershausen), but not so complicated as him. Every note full of complexity and hard to copy at all.

[@RichardRBarrett]

This looks like it's from one of the instructional DVDs, but I have the one where he's wearing the orange jumper and i don't think this is on it. Can anybody help with the source?

[@Scarlett4Zanzibar]

Delicious! :) :) Thanks for posting this.

[@kareth90]

How can this be 240p? It sounds amazing!

[@andrewshere]

siskiyoukid12, I am humbled by your wisdom and insightfulness. I shall endeavour to focus on the right thing in the future. Thank you.

[@fingling8]

@oscailandoras Cunla begins around 1:30. To me, phenomenally skillful as he is, I much prefer the spirit of the Planxty versions of these tunes. Too flash, but for sure well done.

[@mazay24]

@toepje12 it's Nice Feeling 1999 album

[@mazay24]

it's Nice Feeling 1999 album

[@AceT91]

Ah the master of grace notes.

[@micheldarribehaude83]

💜

[@XxnatrocksxX]

well not really i like the irish band The Cranberries pretty good they did the song "zombie" maybe you heard of them.

[@richardbarrett1525]

What’s the source? It isn’t on the instructional DVD where he’s dressed like this.

[@OurAwesomeUniverse]

I was thinking the same thing just before I read your comment.

[@andrewshere]

Glad he's not one of those guitarists who like to raise their eyebrows and shake their heads from side to side as if in a rapture. I'm glad he just frowns! He lets the music do the work - and it's bloody amazing.

[@jennymorrison2703]

is it just me or does the start of this sound exactly like mumford and sons - roll away your stone?!

[@bohmaniac]

Bensusan knows where the frets are fo sho

[@lukelikesphilly]

I'm pretty sure he dislocates his left pinky at 2:08 and it doubles in length.

[@DLS95]

@johnmacward Yep most likely they heard the Planxty version and thats where they go it.

[@ImranHunzai]

Pity all the 14 people who have given thumbs down.

[@briandunstan3503]

Imran Hunzai don't pity us were all happily listening to real guitar players.this bloke is totally fake and you are all taken in by him.

[@wideernie]

Barely look at his fingers!! So what, bloody superb!

***** VERY COOL *****

[@kennethbransford820]

To Stephen sheriff,I agree,probably like the guy david clark said,they tried it learn it,in standard tuning, haha.

[@NylonStrungGirl]

I counted him using it at least 4 times in the first 14 seconds

[@PeterMillerMusic]

Cool!!!!!

[@IBG67]

One day ill do that. Right now this one is taking some woodshedding, but ill get it

[@tarkineWild]

Sorry for the late reply and I should change the heading to include it, but Yes, yes it does

[@kylek2794]

That face!

[@ConradFlater]

Where the tabs

[@boru1982]

1:12 that's how i look like when i play too.

[@I..dīg..hõles]

Legends has is that that this guitar is drunk to this day because of irish whiskey..

[@timpipe]

I have seen Pierre a couple of times, and unfortunately he rarely plays the celtic tunes anymore. sigh

[@DickyKrist]

he didnt even look at the guitarrrrr

[@z454]

supernice!!!!

[@Mjollnir50]

Awesome, delicious! Many thanks!

[@ferrisishere]

no im just pointing out the difference between irish traditional music that pierre is playing and the cranberries just beause your from ireland doesnt make you a trad player

[@Peggysmusic]

Bravo!!

[@sheltech12]

that too is magnificent

[@nanajack]

Just love it

[@MoreLife427]

Challange Accepted

[@fragilebalanceband]

Hey looks just like Javier Bardem

[@646879]

if you like this ....you will like Sam Pacetti's version as well...

[@Superterrestrial]

Wow....I think I may just bust out my classical guitar again...

[@AdiHazan26]

does anybody know what kind of thumbpick pierre is using here?

[@Numlocq]

Yeah a plastic one.

[@XxnatrocksxX]

but sungha jung was was forced to play instruments at like 4 and he was playing stuff like AC/DC when he was 7, also HE'S ASIAN.

[@caraphyllis]

Check out Tommy Emmanuel on KZbin and see what you think. I love Pierre Bensusan's playing, but there are others, different, and just as good.

[@simonpage6549]

Tommy is great,obviously, but comparing the two is like comparing the finest champagne to a cheap supermarket own brand of fizzy wine. (Bensusan is the champagne).

[@johntcassus]

I would have liked to have seen Micheal Hedges play this song.

[@MoreLife427]

He looks like Jimmy Chamberlain mixed with Rich Hall

[@OurAwesomeUniverse]

to have that man's pinky!

[@dearlovej582]

=O holy shit thats some precise picking !

[@kontrapunkti]

There is so many circus-guitarist out there.Hes not!

[@reevedavey]

@isa2222.you got that right.

[@StevenLaneyGuitar]

Hmmm, I think Pierre and Albert Lee's mum may have had the same milkman.

[@XxnatrocksxX]

actually they are irish originated from, Ballybricken, limerick, Ireland. Oh and sorry i didn't mean to sound mean, i thought you were hating irish bands,

[@ferrisishere]

i know who they are an i dont think you can say that the cranberries are irish trad there is a massive differece between this and them

[@kthen]

genius =D

[@xuehui123]

Once touched that guy, I found a the door of guitar's paradise is opening to me!

[@satoshi_arisaka]

ピエール・ベンスーザンはトラッドの方が映える。

[@KevinToine]

This makes me want to take someone in the arm and dance like they used to do back in the ol' days

[@barbarabaldwin7120]

OXOXOX

[@Sarahfreckle]

This is probably technically better but I prefer the way Macyn Taylor plays it.

[@bailsterbailer]

she just had the capo shifted 3 frets higher

[@mazay24]

***** by the way Pierre Bensusan teaches Macyn :)

[@bailsterbailer]

mazay24 who told you that

[@mazay24]

+bailsterbailer i read it from her comments below one of her videos, she told that she took some lessons from Pierre, i can't find it now..

[@don666diego]

25 years ago I tried to play these gigs .... NOT

[@XxnatrocksxX]

no I'm not being funny I'm being legit look them up.

[@onearmfrog]

Llllllllllllllllllooooooovely!

[@ferrisishere]

you being funny?

[@andrewshere]

:-)